Clinton, the former U.S. secretary of state, has led Trump, a New York businessman, throughout most of the 2016 campaign. But her latest lead represents a stronger level of support than polls indicated over the past few weeks. Earlier in August, Clinton‘s lead over Trump ranged from 3 to 9 percentage points in the poll.

The poll also found that about 22 percent of likely voters would not pick either candidate. That lack of support is high compared with how people responded to the poll during the 2012 presidential election between Democratic President Barack Obama and Republican Mitt Romney.

“Those who are wavering right now are just as likely to be thinking about supporting a third-party candidate instead, and not between Clinton and Trump,” said Tom Smith, who directs the Center for the Study of Politics and Society at the University of Chicago.

During the latest polling, Clinton faced renewed scrutiny about her handling of classified emails while serving as secretary of state from 2009 to 2013, and Trump’s campaign chief, Paul Manafort, resigned after a reshuffle of the candidate’s campaign leadership team.

Clinton held a smaller lead in a separate four-way poll that included Libertarian nominee Gary Johnson and Jill Stein of the Green Party. Among likely voters, 41 percent supported Clinton, while 33 percent backed Trump. Johnson was backed by 7 percent and Stein by 2 percent.

The Reuters/Ipsos poll was conducted online in English in all 50 states. Both presidential polls included 1,115 respondents and had a credibility interval, a measure of accuracy, of 3 percentage points.

Trumpian Logic – believe the polls during the primaries that show him winning by double-digit margins (as opposed to the actuality of single digit edging!), but not the polls showing him being trounced by double-digit margins.

Republicans have honed the discipline of denial into a fine art. So much so, it’s difficult to tease out of the rhetoric what it is that remains of those things they still hold true, and what has become evil heresy. What they believe in today, they may have denied as late as yesterday, and vice versa. The politics of expediency thrives in a fact-less fantasyland where all things may be simultaneously believed, or thrown out as the situation, or political strategy of the day might warrant. As for tomorrow it may different. But as of today, we vehemently oppose in the strongest of terms this outrage based on our sacred Conservative Principles!

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Trump fancies himself as an all time winner, he’s an egotist with a Narcissistic Personality Disorder, his little pea brain cannot comprehend self-failure and losing to him is an impossibility. Hopefully he will lose this election and crawl back under the rock from whence he came.

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Trump’s campaign is signing up “poll watchers” whoose job it will be to depress the vote. They will use harrishment, intimidation and challenges to make it more difficult for minorities to vote. We should also be prepared for long lines at polling places with a democratic majority.
It is important that we ensure that those despicable attempts are failures and counter productive. It is not enough that Hillary wins- you are not just voting for a Presidental candidate. This election we are really voting for the future of this country. Your vote for Hillary and help in down ticket races is a vote for inclusion and against bigotry. It is a vote for the possibility of a bright future. Do not be intimidated, be patient, stay in that line and vote, or sign up for a absentee ballot. Take some friends, make an occasion out of it.

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